Usually means: Selfless concern for others' welfare.
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  1. altruistic: Merriam-Webster
  2. altruistic: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. altruistic: Collins English Dictionary
  4. altruistic: Vocabulary.com
  5. Altruistic, altruistic: Wordnik
  6. altruistic: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. altruistic: Wiktionary
  8. altruistic: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. altruistic: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. altruistic: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. Altruistic, altruistic: Dictionary.com
  12. altruistic: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  13. Altruistic: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  14. Altruistic: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  15. altruistic: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  16. altruistic: Rhymezone
  17. Altruistic: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  18. altruistic: FreeDictionary.org
  19. altruistic: Mnemonic Dictionary
  20. altruistic: TheFreeDictionary.com
  21. altruistic: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  22. altruistic: Merriam-Webster

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  1. altruistic: Legal dictionary

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  1. altruistic: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  2. altruistic: Medical dictionary

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Glossary of Entomology (No longer online)

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. altruistic: Urban Dictionary

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adjective:  Regardful of others; beneficent; unselfish

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